Here at Regency home we have various home designs to choose from in our Design Library. The key to good home design rests within 4 main design elements; entertaining, de-stressing, storing, and flexible living. Each of our home plans was designed with these principles in mind, but many homes have more attributes of one design element than the others. So, in order to determine which home is best for your family, rather than thinking about how you’d like your home to look, you should consider how you’d like your home to live. Before you start thinking about some of the more aesthetic attributes of your home, such as what kind of countertops you’d like in your kitchen or what paint you’d like to use in each room, you should start determining what home is best for you based on livability.
Here is an overview of the top 4 design elements that we use to help design your home.
Entertaining
Entertainment areas allow you to effortlessly carry on conversations throughout multiple spaces in your home. Entertainment areas in your home could include the following; a formal room for entertaining, an informal living space, outdoor ‘rooms’ and patios, kitchens with a center island (the center island encourages guest to gather around the snacks), media rooms, and game rooms.
De-stressing
If you need help alleviating some of the stress from your daily life, you may want to consider building a home with plenty of de-stressing spaces. These spaces could include the following; a private master suite, a walk-in shower or whirlpool, a porch, a crafting room, split vanities, mud rooms, and a drop zone to place keys, backpacks, briefcases, and other items.
To learn more about homes built with de-stressing in mind, take a look at our previous post ‘How to Carve Out Intimate Spaces in a Home with an Open Floor Plan‘ where you can read into what areas of a home can be built to create intimate spaces that allow you time and space to organize and ‘de-stress’ your life.
Storing
Finding enough storage space in your home should never be a problem. A well designed home will have multiple areas in which you can store items and organize your life. Some of the main storage areas that can be built into a home are; rear foyer storage, more space in the garage, over-sized bedroom closets, a walk-in pantry, linen closets, and additional areas in the basement or upper level.
To learn more about building a home with the proper storage spaces, take a look at our previous post ‘Building and Designing a New Home Tips and Tricks – Home Storage‘. In that post you will be given tips on how to design a home with plenty of storage space, as well as the benefits of doing so.
Flexible Living
Flexible living areas in a home are necessary if you’re planning on staying in your home for longer than 15 years. Children grow up, move out (and back in), parents stay to visit, a family member may need to come stay for an extended period of time, and in general, life happens. Building a flexible home ensures that you’re ready for just about anything. That office may seem like a great idea now, but in the future you may regret not adding a closet and window so that it can easily be converted into a bedroom.
Regency has made it easier to design a home with livability in mind. Designing a home can be very intimidating as it can be hard to visualize the finished home and how it will live. We’ve created a livability quiz that will help you determine which of the 4 main design elements are most important to you and your family.
Click here to take the livability quiz.
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